Hi guys ,
To clear the confusion ... I'm able to boot but not able to change the bios
settings.
I haven't tried the hard reset yet, will certainly let you know once I'm
done with it.
Thank You ,
Jithendra.
On 10/31/06, Amit Joshi
On 10/31/06, John Andersen
wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 17:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-10-30 at 15:19 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Unfortunately, you not only reset the password, but the rest of
the
setup. If there is something critical (like irq conflicts solved by hand tweaking), the computer might not boot or some device might not work.
Given that he CAN'T BOOT AT ALL, because he does not know the password, what sense does it make to worry about such things?
Where and when did Jithendra (the OP) say that? Can you show the sentence where he says that he can not boot?
He said it right here:
http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security/2006-Oct/0055.html
"I forgot the boot password of my SuSe desktop. Can anyone provide me a workaround to change the boot options or way to disable to boot password prompt. "
He said that he can't change the BIOS Settings. This probably means that he has password protected his BIOS. He said he's able to boot to the SuSE Desktop, which indeed means that he can certainly boot, and has not password protected the entire system, but only the BIOS Settings.
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